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Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 09:48 pm
I can finally post!
Except, all the things i was going to post about are now totally *gone* from my brain. Silly brain.
Ummm...let's see...

Go over to [livejournal.com profile] fandom_counts and be counted, if you haven't been. Total currently stands at 33,536.

I don't know how, or why, but today the Monstrous Bebe decided that she is a fan of 'Top Chef'. There was a season one marathon on and she watched...all...day. She dragged Cat in, and then me, and we ate dinner while we watched. OMG. *She's ten. I guess i prefer this to, say, Pussycat Dolls.* She's been watching the Food Channel a lot lately. And also season one of Bones that [livejournal.com profile] sweptawaybayou lent us. Now she wants to be a Forensic Anthropologist.

I say - Go go! :)

What else, what else...? If you've recently been friended, let me tell you - i don't post a lot. And you don't have to comment on every little thing i post, either. I shout to the void, it's okay if nothing comes back.

And now, just 'cause i can, three snippets. My not-Big Bang fic, and two of my Sweet Charity fics. One's an SPN fic in the Wolfpack 'verse and one's Spander. I have another Spander in the works, but not anything i want to post right now. Enjoy!



Read us the Book of the Names of the Dead

For Sam, Seattle would always be the first city where he and Dean got a hotel room all to themselves. Of course, the reason they did was because the three of them got food poisoning at a steak house in Wenatchee and by the time they'd hit Seattle they'd had to pull over four times. Sam hadn't ever puked so much in his life.

They had stopped at the first motel they saw – a Motel 6 – and Dad had got two rooms. Dad had said he was too old to be that sick and share a bathroom. The cool factor of a separate room was totally lost on Sam and Dean for the next two days while they alternated between bathroom and beds. At one point, Dean had heroically gotten dressed and staggered to the vending machines for Sprite and crackers for all of them and then had flopped down face-first on his bed and hadn't moved for the next four hours.




Savage and Jaunty, Fierce and Strong

The little dinger attached to the door goes off and Dick looks up, seeing three men walking back toward the counter. Three big men that move like cats, silent in their worn boots. The tallest one seems to be the youngest, and his cool, accessing stare makes Dick almost reach for the gun he carries. Almost. He stops himself with the merest twitch and the kid notices. His lips move, saying something to his companions and all three gazes are suddenly fastened on Dick and he feels...

Jesus, he feels like a rabbit caught in the headlights of an oncoming car. Feels like a mouse under the stoop of a hawk. He can feel sweat break out, sudden and rank, under his arms and across his back and he lifts his hands from the t-shirts he forgot he was folding and holds them up.

Doesn't breathe until those hot, hungry gazes move off him.




Speak Like Rain

*Found you.* Spike reached into a pocket and unearthed cigarettes and lighter because, quite frankly, he wanted something to do with his hands. With his mouth, too, because God alone knew what would come out of it. *Five years and I still don't have a fucking clue what to say.* Spike lit up and took a long drag – headed uphill, his boots sinking a little into the sodden earth.

The crest of the rise was drier and Spike found him in a crouch, back to the slim trunk of the tree. Bottle gleaming wetly in his hand, thin yeast smell of cheap beer.

"I guess the lion doesn't sleep tonight," Xander said, and Spike let out smoke and breath on a thin laugh.

"I won't do the 'wimoweh' part," Spike warned, and now Xander laughed.

Took a long gulp of his beer, his throat working in the cool slant of moonlight coming through the acacia leaves. "You know, that's not even the right word. About half of that song was originally in Zulu."

"The things you learn when you travel seven thousand-odd miles."



A final note. In the past six months or so, i've had a few fic nominated here and there. And it's very cool and it's very *nice*, but i forget and forgot. I meant to say 'thank you!' to whomever did the nom'ing.

Now i - and i and [livejournal.com profile] reremouse - have been nom'd again at the Fang Fetish Awards, and apparently it's a vote thing. I've never done this before! Heh. Go vote! Not necessarily for us, though.

Um. If i said i'd pimp or talk about something of yours in my 'next post' and i didn't? Well, my brain is spastic and i need reminding. Remind me! And i will. OH! I have a Greatest Journal, i'm Tabaqui there as well. Friend if you like, i'm not posting over there just now.
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007 03:29 am (UTC)
Wolf-verse!!!!! *dies of happiness* Has to be my favorite verse yet in this fandom. They're just so damn scary and sexy.
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 03:35 am (UTC)
::happy sigh:: I think I love it already.
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 03:45 am (UTC)
eeeee wolfpack! eeee Spander!

EEEEEE Tabaqui!

*blinks*
*hides rum*
no, not tipsy. not at all!
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 04:21 am (UTC)
I love the Spander one. :)
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 04:35 am (UTC)
I have an absolutely unreasonable adoration for the Wolfpack 'verse.
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 05:38 am (UTC)
*Flail* SPANDER Eeeeeee! Lord I have missed them. The snarkiness, the essence of them just being them. And Lion King. *sniffle* Have I said that I've missed them -and by them I mean your boys 'cause really, no one writes them better-? Also, I love every freaking bit of the Spander but I feel like you just started it off perfectly.

*ahem* *snicker* oh that's so very much a kid thing. You get this great and awesomely cool grown-up thing and usually it's not what it's cracked up to be. Or something happens that really takes the fun/joy out of it. Heh, but it is the Winchesters and *pat pat* at least nothing worse happened.

EEEE! Spander! *ahem*

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Thursday, June 7th, 2007 05:41 am (UTC)
All snippets are good but the wolf boys are kill me....
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 06:36 am (UTC)
I had so much love for Top Chef S1 and the biggest crush on Harold. The second season? Not so much love, but still entertaining. I'm excited for season 3, but I'll only watch Top Chef when there's a marathon, I can't watch it week to week.

"I won't do the 'wimoweh' part," Spike warned, and now Xander laughed.
A really excellent snippet.

Thursday, June 7th, 2007 08:29 am (UTC)
So...spander? YES, please. I love your Spike and Xander SO MUCH it borders on ridiculous.
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 11:03 am (UTC)
*spins you*

Lovely, lovely. You know I'm addicted to each one of those. *bounces*

I have to go to Lawrence for an all day meeting today. *sigh* I'll have to take these fic!snippets with me to dream about while being yammered at. Thank you.

:)

**luffs**
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 12:50 pm (UTC)
my kid has been watching cooking TV recently, although considering that we don't have TV, this involves claiming the in-front-of-TV spot in the grocery store when we eat lunch there, cause there's always cooking shows on. One day she wanted to know why the program had changed to this weird short stuff... oops right I'd tuned out the commercials and Kid didn't know what they were. I forget that she's growing up in a void on that sort of thing when I just block them out. I ended up explaining them as similar to the little cardboard ads she tears out of magazines.

At least she doesn't want to make what she's seeing made. Mostly things seh doesn't like. She just really wants to watch. *tilts head to the side* I don't get it, but as these things go, I'm willing to flow with it.
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 12:58 pm (UTC)
Oooh, the Spander one is so fascinating and seems to be the beginning of something? I love it, even if it's just a tantalizing glimpse.

Maybe Monstrous Bebe will grow up to be a chef, or maybe she'll grow up to be a forensic anthropologist who can cook really well! Either way, she'll be a fascinating person.
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 03:38 pm (UTC)
Thank you, thank you for getting me into this series and fandom! ^_^ I really love your Wolfpack series by the way, and I'm happy to see a snippet. By the way, I tried accessing your previous wolfpack fics in your memories but all I get is an error screen.

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Thursday, June 7th, 2007 03:59 pm (UTC)
Poor boys. Finally got a room of their own and they're too laid up to do anything constructive with it. LOL
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 04:02 pm (UTC)
Oooohhhhh nice very very nice Spander.

Oh how I love thee for writing that, cheers hun.

*passes the chocolate*
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 04:33 pm (UTC)
Yes!! Wolf verse!!! All the snippets were good but I've got a special place in my heart for the Winchester wolf pack. You're going to be posting the rest soon...right?!? Right?!?!
Thursday, June 7th, 2007 06:39 pm (UTC)
Hey! *waves*

Congratulations on all the nominations *G* and just to say that this is me....delurking. *knocks politely*

Can I come in?

:-) xx

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Friday, June 8th, 2007 03:57 am (UTC)
oh my goodness, I CANNOT WAIT for these! wolfish Sam makes me die little deaths all over the place.

and alas, I am only marginally acquainted with BtVS, but still, your Spike reminded me of everything I ever liked about that show. Pretty much, I will read anything you write. I explored bits and pieces of your Hounds and Angels, and was agog. I am so glad that you are so prolific!
Friday, June 8th, 2007 04:19 pm (UTC)
The Food Channel is awesomesauce. Best thing to turn on if there's nothing on TV. (And Bones reminded me that David Boreanaz actually CAN act. I'd forgotten.)

And also: Wolfpack! Hooray! And by "hooray" I mean, "ohgodthat'shot".

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Friday, June 8th, 2007 05:17 pm (UTC)
Yay, you can post!

Loved the "Savage and Jaunty, Fierce and Strong" one. Great tension conveyed. Now I want to know who they are and what they want!

And I always love your Spike and Xander. :-)

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Sunday, June 10th, 2007 01:19 am (UTC)
Congrats!

You've got my vote. Bear in mind I can still be bribed, however. . . .

And the snippets! You're an evol, evol thing! All three are helladamnfine, but Savage and Jaunty, Fierce and Strong--oh, you know I have a weakness for Wolf!pack fic--and the kid notices--
::sighs::
Sunday, June 10th, 2007 02:07 pm (UTC)
I liked the first one with it's evocation of childhood memories and Dean's character.
I love the wolf pack, anyway, but the way you create the menace of the predators, through the eyes of the observer, is masterful.
And Spander... well, your Spander is just really good. The off-hand comfortableness of their interaction is such a pleasure to read, even if Spike is worried it isn't there.